Manual Removal of iFolder 3.7 with Re-installation on OES 2 Linux

I had one of my remote branches that couldn’t wait for Open Enterprise Server 2 Linux to get iFolder. The local server was NetWare 6 and therefore would require iFolder 2 and a migration in the near future. That wasn’t the problem.

In the process of getting iFolder 3.7 to run on the OES 2 Linux server I had a bout of power outages that resulted in a corruption of the root partition and guess which part caught the corrupted blocks. Yep, iFolder’s data store. I toyed with it for a while and then decided to just re-install it, especially since no one was using it yet.

Running simias-server-setup was very straightforward and simple, as long as you’re root. My problem was it didn’t fix my problem. I was still getting “Your session has been closed. Please log in.” messages trying to login to the Admin Page.

I decided to rip and replace, or at least try, couldn’t hurt, wasn’t working anyway. It’s not that difficult and no real pitfalls to speak of. Here is what I did to get it all back up and running.

Note: I would advise against this method on a critical or working iFolder server. It has not been tested on Master/Slave or cluster scenarios. This was done on a standalone iFolder server running iFolder 3.7 on OES 2 SP1 Linux. Please consult your physician.

First, we need to remove all iFolder packages from the server. Run YaST | OES Installation and Configuration or from the command line, yast oes-install.

I prefer to use Search and then enter “ifolder” and this will pull up a list of anything iFolder. We only need to remove three pieces:

iFolder-clients
iFolder-enterprise
iFolder-tsa

You will get some dependencies about the plugins for migration. I resolved them by selecting to remove them also. (We’ll re-install them later).

Select Next and wait for the uninstall to complete. Exit YaST and open a command line terminal. The following must be removed to ensure that there is no iFolder “residue” lingering around the server. This will also ensure a cleaner installation when we put iFolder back.

Disclaimer: This content is not supported by Novell. It was contributed by a community member and is published "as is." It seems to have worked for at least one person, and might work for you. But please be sure to test it thoroughly before using it in a production environment.